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BenOfTomorrow | 14 years ago

> Every single department was more likely to admit a woman than a man

Not quite; you can see several exceptions to this in the table in the article.

The key points of the partitioned data were:

No department was significantly biased against women.

Most departments had a statistically significant bias towards women.

It's interesting to note that the departments that ARE biased towards men have more female applicants; I wonder if being in a minority group for that department is an even more important confounding factor.

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